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I seem to be the only one commenting on this post. I’ve read a few machine-generated paragraphs to my daughter and they make her nervous. It’s because you know it’s nonsense, but you can kind of make sense of parts of it — and some of those meanings are kind of disturbing. Is this because the Big Other is using the machine to speak to us? I doubt it. I think it’s because our ability to embed language in meaning structures is so fluid that we are able, spontaneously and on the fly, to find meaning in meaningless texts. I suspect a similar mechanism is at work in dreams, Freudian slips, glossolalia, coincidences, and any number of other procedures for inducing slippage in our signifier-signified linkages. Where meaning is ambiguous we can create it anyway — it’s another skill we’ve honed since earliest childhood. But I think there’s value in devices like this, that bring more disturbing meaning elements into conscious awareness. Why do they disturb us? Is there something we’re hiding from ourselves, and the random paragraph generator slips by our defenses? Probably.